Why do artists with millions of plays fail to make a living from streaming?
This article will detail how the method works.
How can many artists worldwide, with millions of listens, fail to make a decent living from their works on Spotify?
The royalties are indeed too low, but the streaming giant is not the bad guy in the story — this article reveals how the method works — and how it can be corrected.
The public ultimatum letter released by singer Neil Young a year ago against streaming service giant Spotify, in which he demanded that they choose between him and Joe Rogen’s popular podcast, rekindled the lively discussions against streaming services and was enough to once again crown Spotify in the eyes of many as the evil giant Who exploits the artists from whom he makes a living.
Young was joined in protest by other artists such as Johnny Mitchell, Graham Nash, David Crosby, and Stephen Stills. Others have chosen not to intervene for fear of escalation on the part of Spotify towards them.
If to be objective, then the anger directed at Spotify is wrong: the amounts that streaming broadcasts bring to creators are undoubtedly too low, but a protest against one service like Spotify, however large, misses the point in this article.
